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trees always spread the roots regularly round 

 the bole, and at four inches from the sur- 

 face; let the tree be mulched and watered 

 immediately after being planted. 



The trees afterwards require a summer 

 and winter regulation. In furnishing the 

 tree with w ood let the bearing shoots be six 

 inches apart. The summer regulation must 

 be performed about the end of June or early 

 in July, in doing which let any strong lux- 

 uriant shoots be taken awav, also all suckers 

 which may be arising. It is a practice with 

 some persons at this season of the year to 

 pinch off the ends of all shoots upon the 

 tree, but I disapprove of it as a general prac- 

 tice, because I have had ample proof that it 

 causes the tree to send forth a great number 

 of useless shoots and thus its strength is 

 thrown away. 



There is also another injury done to the 

 tree at the early part of the season by the 

 gathering of the fruit when it is green, and 

 before it has attained half the size it would 

 have done. In doing this, some persons 

 clear whole trees of the berries which were 

 upon them ; the effect of which is, that the 

 trees being so suddenly deprived of their 

 produce receive a very severe check, and 

 the superabundance of sap is expended in a 

 great production of suckers and luxuriant 

 shoots, thus their strength is thrown away 

 and the trees greatly injured. Instead of this 



